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Mathieu Flamini

ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger claims he did everything in his power to keep Mathieu Flamini.

The French midfielder choose not to remain at the Emirates Stadium despite being offered a new deal by the Gunners, choosing instead to sign a bumper four-year deal with AC Milan instead.

Asked if everything possible had been done to keep the Frenchman, Wenger told Arsenal TV "Yes. I believe that even Mathieu would concede that.

"We put him in the bracket of where we could go (financially, with a contract offer), and we made him that offer, but unfortunately it wasn't enough.

"We have to accept that because Mathieu was a good servant of the club for four years and he came without costing any transfer fee and left without costing any transfer fee, so he was free to go."

12:58pm Friday 9th May 2008

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